Witness History Episodes Available now
Surviving re-education in China鈥檚 Cultural Revolution
Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China鈥檚 cultural revolution
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John鈥檚 hero
The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records
Paraguay adopts its second language
How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay鈥檚 new constitution
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
Nearly 200 died when Spanish commuter trains were bombed in 2004
MH370: The plane that vanished
Ghyslain Wattrelos' wife and two children were on MH370, the plane that disappeared.
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
In 1974, a 41-year regime was overthrown in a day
